Uri Levine

Show Opening & Guest Introduction0:06 – 0:56

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I'm Jessica Harris.

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This is From Scratch.

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My guest is Yuri Levine, co-founder of Waze, the crowdsourced traffic navigation app.

0:15

Drivers share real-time traffic and road information to help other users on the same route.

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Yuri co-founded Waze in Israel in 2007. and the company was sold to Google in 2013 for $1.1 billion.

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Waze has roughly 150 million users and operates in countries ranging from Italy to Antarctica.

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Yuri is also the founder of FeeX, which also uses crowdsourced information, this time to uncover hidden fees in people's financial accounts.

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Prior to starting Waze, Yuri was an independent strategic consultant focused on the wireless industry.

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He is a graduate of Tel Aviv University.

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Welcome.

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